Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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does not really upon the ceaſing of its un
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uſual agitation by little and little relapſe
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into water, I ſhould ſtrongly ſuſpect that
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'tis poſſible for Water to be eaſily turn'd
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have formerly taught that there lurks an
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interſperſed Air in the pores of ordinary
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Water, which may poſſibly be ſtruck out
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by the breaking of the Water in its fall
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into the Æolian Chamber, (as he calls it.)
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But in regard the Scheme ſeems to repre
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ſent that Chamber as cloſely ſhut, and
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thereby forbids us to ſuppoſe that any Air
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is carried into it but what is latitant in the
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Water, it will ſcarce ſeem probable to
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him who remembers how ſmall a propor
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tion of Air, that appear'd to be when its
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rarification ſeaſed, which was conceal'd in
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the Water we freed from bubbles in our
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Receiver, that ſo little Air as is common
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ly diſperſ'd through Water, ſhould be a
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ble, in ſo little Water as was requiſite for
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ſo ſmall a room, to make ſo vehement a
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Wind as our Author here tells us of. </
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have ſometime therefore ſuſpected, that
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in this caſe the Wind may be produc'd by
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ſmall particles of the water it ſelf, forci
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bly expell'd out of the Chamber into the
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